A Chilean judge wants to question Henry Kissinger about the 1973 death of an American journalist that became the plot of the movie “Missing.”

Judge Juan Guzman yesterday sent a list of written questions for the former secretary of state to Chile’s Supreme Court, which must decide whether to pass the questions on to the State Department.

Guzman, who has been seeking to try Gen. Augusto Pinochet for the reign of terror after he came to power, is investigating the death of Charles Horman, an American.

Chilean troops seized Horman at his Santiago home shortly after Pinochet staged a coup in September 1973 and ousted Marxist President Salvador Allende.

Horman is believed to have been killed in a roundup of leftist symphathizers.

The efforts of Horman’s family to find out what happened to him and recover his body were dramatized in the 1982 movie “Missing,” in which Jack Lemmon played Horman’s father and Sissy Spacek portrayed Horman’s wife.

The family’s claim that the CIA was involved in his arrest received some support from State Department reports declassified last year.

Horman’s family also maintains the U.S. Embassy was aware of his whereabouts – at a detention center in Chile’s National Stadium – but failed to help him.

Guzman wants to question Kissinger, who served as secretary of state from 1973 to 1977, about what he knows of the case.

Meanwhile, doctors decided yesterday that Pinochet, 85, should remain in the hospital where he was admitted last Sunday with high blood pressure and a dental infection.